Hi - I was wondering if anybody knows of a book or white paper on the costs/benefits of different types of genericized data models (Entity-Attribute-Value or Name Value pairs, full text indexing with first abnormal form, or a more limited abstract naming convention on a limited set of user defined fields, a la Great Plains).  My company is grappling with this problem right now, and I was wondering if anybody else who's already done the work might have published about it.

 Thanks!

 
Jennifer Kenney